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spicy tooth

noun

Etymology

By analogy with sweet tooth.

Definitions

  1. A liking for foods that are spicy.

    • A week of fact-checking the story proved too much for my spicy tooth; I made immediate plans to visit Chang's latest restaurant
    • I not only have a sweet tooth, but I have a salty tooth, a sour tooth, a spicy tooth, you name the taste and I have the damned tooth for it!
    • I will admit, I have a huge sweet tooth (probably larger than my spicy tooth), but I do have a limit as to how sweet I like my desserts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spicy tooth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA